Highlights from this week’s conversation include:
- Introduction of the panel (0:05)
- Defining composable data stack (5:22)
- Components of a composable data stack (7:49)
- Challenges and incentives for composable components (10:37)
- Specialization and modularity in data workloads (13:05)
- Organic evolution of composable systems (17:50)
- Efficiency and common layers in data management systems (22:09)
- The IR and Data Computation (23:00)
- Components of the Storage Layer (26:16)
- Decoupling Language and Execution (29:42)
- Apache Calcite and Modular Frontend (36:46)
- Data Types and Coercion (39:27)
- Describing Data Sets and Schema (42:00)
- Open Standards and Frontiers (46:22)
- Challenges of standardizing APIs (48:15)
- Trade-offs in building composable systems (54:04)
- Evolution of data system composability (56:32)
- Exciting new projects in data systems (1:01:57)
- Final thoughts and takeaways (1:17:25)
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